Cursed- Case of the Black Pearl by Morgan Gold

Author:Morgan Gold [Gold, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

6

A treasure. A wonderful precious treasure -and they would get to look for it. Elijah was excited, to say the least. The only problem was the angry police lady. She seemed displeased at her and Lewis’ very existence.

They walked through the Coast City Cove, shoving through heavy sand. The overarching roof of the cave cast them in darkness, and water dripped of great spikes that protruded from it.

Kate brushed her hair back. “Youths. They are all the same. Goes poking into other people’s business.” she was holding her son by the hand, taking the lead.

Elijah huffed, “You have one of those youths as your child.” and what a youth he was, talking and acting like a toddler, grasping his mother’s hand when he looked as old as a teenager. “Watch what you’re saying-”

“Jimmy is quite sweet.” Kate grasped her son’s hand tight, “I raised him right, to behave. What would your mother do-”

Elijah stomped in the sand, splashing it high, “My mother’s dead.”

The officer stopped in her tracks. The rest of their party trudged on -Doyle and Lewis, along with her son, who pulled from her grasp, excited to find the treasure.

She looked to the girl, shock written all over her face, “I- I am sorry-”

Elijah threw her head up, fire in her eyes, “So it would be okay to trash-talk her if she was alive? You have a strange way of thinking.” She felt insulted, to the highest degree.

There she was, to deliver this pearl only out of respect for the dead. Yet the police did not match her forethought. A rumbling disgust bubbled in her throat, and laid like thick syrup over her tongue. It tasted foul.

“I don’t just do this for fun- I have my reasons. Let us just find the treasure so I can stop bothering you and your superiority complex.” she shouldered past the officer, stomping her way to the rest with clenched fists.

Kate watched her retreating form, guilt settling like rocks in her stomach. Her, a superiority complex? No, that couldn't be true. She thought herself superior because she was superior. She was an officer of the law and the girl was an untrained civilian.

As for her son, he was as sweet as could be. Perhaps she was a little overprotective at times, but that was natural with her career; she saw bad things happen constantly. She just wanted to protect him. And she was right for doing that.

She held her head high as she trailed after the group. They stopped at the center of the cave, looking around the voluminous room. Gulls screeched outside, and a thin film om water blew over the cave floor.

Each person had their interest caught, and the group naturally split apart, each claiming a corner of the cove. As Elijah walked, she tried to hide her burning anger. Luck had it that Lewis seemed too excited to pay attention.

He grinned, “Perhaps our competition is back on?”

She forced a smile, “Perhaps it is. Then I will get the beach to myself for a year!”

“If you’re so sure,” he said, with a tooth-full grin.

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